Artificial intelligence summit full of trite portent

There will surely be new rules made about AI over the next few years, and the leaders of the tech giants wanted to make sure they are in on the rule-making from the start.

Despite global tech leaders opining that AI is an 'existential threat' to humanity, that threat will only arise if the machines were to be endowed with something called 'artificial general intelligence,' which does not currently exists, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 9, 2023

I’m sorry that I didn’t get my article on artificial intelligence in last week during the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, the historic Second World War decoding centre in England. I got distracted by some other stuff that was happening in the Middle East.

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